Describes how some San Francisco businessmen encourage employees to tutor school children on company time. (Author)

A remedial program that has yielded notable results is described for high risk college freshmen. (PG)

The author discusses a method of using standardized tests in a multivariate statistical framework for making student placement decisions. (RWP)

The authors deplore current lack of counselor interaction with learning handicapped children. Counselors should receive university training in special education, they maintain, and thus be prepared to contribute educational alternatives for learning handicapped children. Objectives for the counselor in working with parents of children with…

How effective are the Frostig training program and corrective reading instruction for improving the reading and visual-motor skills of pupils who possess deficiencies in both areas? Results of this study show little support for use of the Frostig program or corrective reading as treatments to improve the reading skills of children considered to…

Energy level output is a determining factor in the grouping of learning disabled children in a remedial program. (KW)

Describes a special laboratory program at Eastern Kentucky University for flunkouts." (HS)

Traces progress of the Research Committee of the Ohio Council of the International Reading Association in surveying present certification requirements, in recommending more stringent requirements, and in seeking to solve the problems involved in their implementation. Bibliography. (MD)

Describes a program that surveyed the extent of reading problems among 11,311 children in 12 rural Georgia school systems, employed remedial instruction with the most severely disabled, and reported significant gains made after a 9-month period. (MD)

Lists behavioral objectives and evaluative criteria designed for a remedial reading classroom. (HTH)